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Agentic CLI: Beyond The Repo

Hugging Face 2025-10-22

16 facts about Ireland to get Israeli & Jewish tourists excited about visiting

The Times of Israel 2025-10-02

6 Great Things About Living In Israel

The Times of Israel 2025-10-02

A Real Person's Guide To Making Aliyah

The Times of Israel 2025-10-02

As Iran Readied Its Missiles for Israel, Ireland Hobnobbed with Its Emissaries

The Times of Israel 2025-10-02

Ireland’s attempt to have Israel 'kicked out' of the EU explained

The Times of Israel 2025-10-02

Israel Plans To Scrap Judicial Review. But Who's Really To Blame？

The Times of Israel 2025-10-02

Jerusalem's pristine snow day, sullied by ugly politics

The Times of Israel 2025-10-02

Lessons from an Israeli-Palestinian beer-and-burger meetup

The Times of Israel 2025-10-02

One Year Later, Jerusalem's Hottest Food Celeb Still Serving Up Post-Fulls Of Delight

The Times of Israel 2025-10-02

Pragmatism, not bridge-building, governs Israel's emerging peace ties

The Times of Israel 2025-10-02

Re-imagining Aliyah As The Jewish Immigrant Experience

The Times of Israel 2025-10-02

Silencing Criticism Doesn’t Help People Stay in Israel

The Times of Israel 2025-10-02

Tadhg 'Tehran' Hickey： The Extremism And Hate Speech Ireland Is Tolerating

The Times of Israel 2025-10-02

The Strange Case Of The Gaslighting Irish

The Times of Israel 2025-10-02

To Attract Half A Million New Immigrants, Israel Needs To Up Its Offer First

The Times of Israel 2025-10-02

We don't need 'Anglo' representation in Israel

The Times of Israel 2025-10-02

Tadhg ‘Tehran’ Hickey — The Antisemitic Hate Speech Ireland Allows To Blossom In Plain Sight

Medium 2025-06-22

Prompting for purchasing: Shopping lists & evaluation matrixes (Part 2)

Dev.to 2024-11-26

ChatGPT, Find Me A Laptop! (Prompting For Purchasing, Part 1)

Dev.to 2024-11-25

Using An LLM To Analyse Governments' Reactions To The ICC Arrest Warrants

Dev.to 2024-11-23

Tapping Large Language Models' Vast Potential in Knowledge Generation

Dev.to 2024-10-31

The Demise Of Human Coding, Rise Of AI, And Why It's Good For Devs Too

Dev.to 2024-10-30

How I Use ChatGPT To Spec Out Hardware Upgrades

Dev.to 2024-10-17

Using Natural Language To Generate A Simple Python GUI With An LLM .... In Less Than 15 Minutes

Dev.to 2024-10-02

This is how easy it is to get LLMs to write basic Python GUIs

Dev.to 2024-09-28

Output Hub - Knowledge Management System For LLM & GPT Outputs (Project Outline)

Dev.to 2024-09-22

Enriching Event Registrant Data With OpenAI API (Event Management Use-Case)

Dev.to 2024-09-19

ChatGPT Built Me A Linux GUI! (Tkinter)

Dev.to 2024-09-09

My Custom GPT List - August 2024

Dev.to 2024-08-20

Custom GPT List — August 2024

Medium 2024-08-20

My GPT & ChatGPT Github Repository Index (08/24)

Dev.to 2024-08-09

A Custom GPT To Summarise Communications From Abusive Or Toxic Individuals

Medium 2024-07-30

An Iterative Cycle For GPT Prompt Engineering

Medium 2024-07-25

An Iterative Cycle For GPT Prompt Engineering

Dev.to 2024-07-24

Creating NFC Or QR Code Automations In Home Assistant Using Webhooks

Dev.to 2024-03-26

Shabbat / Yom Tov Home Assistant Automations — Part 2 (Helper Configuration)

Dev.to 2024-03-26

Getting My Life Organised With HomeBox (Open Source Inventory Management)

Medium 2024-02-26

Ireland’s Political Pogrom Of Israel Continues Unabated

Medium 2024-02-23

HomeBox For Home Organisation (Open Source, Self-Hosted)

Medium 2024-02-14

A Letter To My Irish Friends About Antisemitism

Medium 2024-02-13

Ireland Basketball’s Israel-Shunning Carried The Silent Imprimatur Of Its Prime Minister

Medium 2024-02-09

The Ireland-Israel Disconnection Plan: A Harm-Reduction Approach To Foreign Relations With Dublin

Medium 2024-02-09

16 facts about Ireland to get Israeli & Jewish tourists excited about visiting

Medium 2024-02-08

M-Disc vs. Blu Ray Inorganic (HTL): Optical Media Ageing Experiment 2

Medium 2024-02-07

Why I’ve Been (Reluctantly) Writing About Ireland And Israel Lately

Medium 2024-02-06

How Israel’s Only Kosher Korean Restaurant Came To Be (VIDEO)

Medium 2022-09-13

My home office decor upgrade (August 2022)

Medium 2022-09-02

M-Disc: The World’s Most Durable Archiving Medium (Photos, Video)

Medium 2022-09-01

The Israel Egypt Border In Photographs — As Taken From Highway 10

Medium 2022-09-01

Driving On Route 10 — Israel’s Spectacular Road Along The Egyptian Border

Medium 2022-08-27

A Koala Drinking Beer In Ireland — And Other Weird Things I Created Using DALL E 2 This Week

Medium 2022-08-04

My Videography Journey To Date — As Told In Photos

Medium 2022-05-30

What Book Publishing And Documentary-Making Have In Common For Emerging Thought Leaders

Medium 2022-02-07

Using Video For More Efficient Note Capture: The How And Why

Medium 2022-02-06

The Jerusalem Trail — In Photos And Videos

Medium 2022-01-31

Why Your Online Reputation Is Like Your Marketing Bank Balance

Medium 2022-01-30

Snow In Jerusalem (January 2022) — Photos

Medium 2022-01-26

English-Speaking Immigrants To Israel Have Never Had Wider Job Options (Thanks To Remote And Hybrid…

Medium 2021-12-21

In photos: sunset over Gaza, as seen from Israel

Medium 2021-12-02

The Remote Job Marketplace Has So Much Potential. But It’s Also So Badly Broken.

Medium 2021-11-17

“Salary Confessions” Page Helps Lift The Lid On Salaries In Israel

Medium 2021-10-28

2 Tech Hacks To Make Job-Hunting Online Easier And Less Frustrating

Medium 2021-10-24

What is mental healthcare like in Israel for immigrants (olim)?

Medium 2021-10-11

The Case For The 3 Hour Freelancing Workday

Medium 2021-10-10

Israel’s housing crisis: could fixing the rental market be a better aim?

Medium 2021-10-08

3 Great Reasons To Begin Posting On Reddit (And Not Facebook)

Medium 2021-10-05

Did You Know? Reddit Has Its Own Search Language. Here’s How To Use It.

Medium 2021-10-04

The Largely Untold Story Of How One Guy In California Keeps The World’s Computers On The Right…

Medium 2021-10-04

The Quiet Rage That Comes With Getting Mentally Well

Medium 2021-10-04

Tomorrow’s Internet Will Be A Bot-Infested, Mind-Warping Wasteland

Medium 2021-10-04

How To Keep A Running Backup Of Your Reddit Account Using Zapier

Medium 2021-10-03

How Did Being An Israel-Critical Zionist Become An Oxymoron?

Medium 2021-09-24

3 (Major) Obstacles Currently Standing In The Way Of A Truly Remote Global Workforce

Medium 2021-09-23

What It’s Like To Work In English In A Non English-Speaking Country

Medium 2021-09-23

Content Marketing: It’s About More Than (Just) Lead Generation

Medium 2021-09-22

Freelance Writers: How To Rebrand Your Service Offering To Get Past The Financial Struggle

Medium 2021-09-22

Iron Dome Defunding: A Timely Wake Up Call For Israel’s Commitment To Safeguarding Its Own Security

Medium 2021-09-22

Content Isn’t “Crap.” It’s Just Hopelessly Vague.

Medium 2021-09-21

The 5 Must-Haves In Every Prepper’s Home Office

Medium 2021-09-20

Why The 43K Milestone Matters For Content Creators (And Why It Doesn’t!)

Medium 2021-09-14

How To: Set Up A Cellular-Backed Highly Available Home Internet Connection

Medium 2021-09-13

Tamid V1.0: The Israeli Home Internet Connection That Never Goes Down

Medium 2021-09-13

If “Nobody Reads Online” Why Bother With Content Marketing At All?

Medium 2021-09-12

3 Damaging Myths That Keep Writers Poor And Undervalued

Medium 2021-09-10

If You Run A Work From Home Business, Consider Investing In Backup Internet

Medium 2021-09-06

For Freelance Writers, Revision Requests Can Be A Major Income-Draining Headache. And Here’s Why.

Medium 2021-08-29

Open Sourcing Isn’t Just For Code — The Value Of Sharing Know-How Even When (Almost) Nobody Is…

Medium 2021-08-29

Tired Of Lousy Home Internet? How To Use 4G/Cellular Backup To Boost Connection Stability

Medium 2021-08-28

A Thoroughly Ridiculous (But Functional) Way To Practice Setting Up Guest Interviews In OBS Studio

Medium 2021-08-25

Remote From World: How The Gold Standard In Digital Nomadism Is Still Surprisingly Evasive

Medium 2021-08-24

Video, Podcasts, Or Blogs? What Format Should You Be Creating Content In This Year (And Beyond)

Medium 2021-08-24

Why Sticking With Content Creation — Over The Long Term — Is Essential To Its Success

Medium 2021-08-23

A More Efficient Way To Create Custom ‘Related Posts’ Sections on Medium

Medium 2021-08-16

Forest Fires Are Lighting The Jerusalem Sky Red

Medium 2021-08-16

The strange linguistic weaponization of specifying who “reached out” first

Medium 2021-08-16

How Israel’s Draconian Defamation Laws Shield Abusive Businesses From Consequence

Medium 2021-08-13

Is The Canon Vixia HF R800 A Good YouTube Camcorder? You Be The Judge! (Review)

Medium 2021-08-13

Picked Up A Client Referral? Now Pay Attention To What They Say (And Think) About You

Medium 2021-08-13

5 YouTube Channels From Israel I’m Watching At The Moment

Medium 2021-08-12

Remote Work: Why Discussing Its Flaws Is A (Hugely) Positive Sign For Its Future

Medium 2021-08-04

Marketing Consultants — And Why Elephant-Spotting Should Be A Core Part Of What They Do

Medium 2021-07-23

Intelligence Gathering Is A Core Marketing Skill — And Other Lessons About Marketing Consulting…

Medium 2021-07-22

Welcome To A Remote-First Working World. Here’s What’s New Around Here.

Medium 2021-07-06

It's been a while since I followed this whole story, but I did notice that during the interview she…

Medium 2021-07-05

Async Communication: You Mean Those Things Us Deep Work Folk Already Use And Love?

Medium 2021-07-04

What Do Marketers Really Think About Salespeople?

Medium 2021-07-04

“Green Flags”: Tips For Recognizing High Potential Leads In Your Freelancing Pipeline

Medium 2021-07-01

A Remote World Will Be Better For All Its Workers

Medium 2021-07-01

How To Block Tracking Pixels When Reading Email On Your Android Device

Medium 2021-07-01

Here’s A Free Rebranding Strategy For Pro-Israel Advocacy

Medium 2021-06-30

The Short And Dirty Playbook To Finding Better-Paying Freelance Clients

Medium 2021-06-29

Does Text-Based ‘Content’ Have A Future In The Age Of Video?

Medium 2021-06-24

Here Are Some Random Business Ideas That You Should Totally Steal From Me

Medium 2021-06-24

Is Content Marketing ‘Just’ Advertising? And Other Tricky Questions For Content Marketers

Medium 2021-06-24

The Silent Audience Effect — And Why You May Have Never Heard The Names Of Your Biggest Fans

Medium 2021-06-24

We Need To Stop Judging ADHD Patients By Their Expected Cover

Medium 2021-06-23

Email Open Rate Tracking Is Creepy And Weird. Should Marketers Be Using It At All?

Medium 2021-06-22

I Post A Lot On LinkedIn. And No, I’m Not Looking For A New Job

Medium 2021-06-22

I Participated In An “Extremist” Flag March In Jerusalem. And All I Saw Were Noisy Teenagers.

Medium 2021-06-20

Why I Always Ask Prospects To Explain What Their Companies Do

Medium 2021-06-20

Why I Decided To Share Publicly About Having Adult ADHD

Medium 2021-05-28

Irish parliamentary motion: assert that Israel has “no place … among the international community”

Medium 2021-05-26

My ADHD Diagnosis Story

Medium 2021-05-25

The 3 Defining Features Of Irish Anti-Semitism

Medium 2021-05-24

Many Irish Want Israel’s Dublin Embassy Shuttered. Why Doesn’t Israel Act First?

Medium 2021-05-23

Palestinian supporters rally in Dublin, Ireland; call Israelis “a bunch of rats.”

Medium 2021-05-23

Calls Or Documents: What’s Better For Briefing Creatives?

Medium 2021-05-04

How Limiting Revisions Can Actually Help Your Freelance Writing Clients

Medium 2021-05-04

The Personal Brand Builder’s Case For Creating With Abandon

Medium 2021-05-04

The Pros And Cons Of A Career In Freelance Writing

Medium 2021-05-04

The Staggering Gulf Between Salaries In Israel’s High-Tech Sector And The Rest Of The Economy

Medium 2021-05-04

The Type Of Freelance Writing Clients You Encounter At Various Price Points

Medium 2021-05-04

Horrible Corporate Jargon That Needs To Go Away Right Now (Part 2)

Medium 2021-05-03

3 English-Speaking Jerusalem Influencers To Follow On Social Media

Medium 2021-04-28

The Ultimate Long Game, Content Marketing Demands Its Own Mindset Too

Medium 2021-04-27

The Dangers of Chasing After Social Engagement Metrics

Medium 2021-04-26

This article contains some interesting insights, but I believe that we really need to stop…

Medium 2021-04-26

What Browsing Wikileaks Cables Taught Me About Report Writing

Medium 2021-04-26

Why Books Remain The Gold Standard Thought Leadership Asset

Medium 2021-04-25

The Case For Israel To Move To A Monday To Friday Workweek

Medium 2021-04-19

A basic guide to thought leadership

Medium 2021-04-16

How can I become a thought leader? A step-by-step guide to get from A to B

Medium 2021-04-16

5 Social Issues Facing Israeli Society

Medium 2021-04-14

Why might you want to use your real name on Reddit?

Medium 2021-04-07

There are a lot of reasons why I find Fasulo's whole approach disingenuous.

Medium 2021-04-06

Is “six figure” culture income-shaming ordinary earners into depression?

Medium 2021-03-26

Please don’t tell me that there’s no anti-Semitism in Ireland. There is.

Medium 2021-03-24

Why I Have Suspicions About Alex Fasulo’s Claimed Fiverr Income

Medium 2021-03-17

I’m based in Israel. And I’m not hiding that fact from anybody.

Medium 2021-03-15

International Websites That Ship To Israel

Medium 2021-03-12

In Israeli “high tech,” all that glitters isn’t gold (or ethical)

Medium 2021-03-09

Digital Wallets Are Coming to Israel. Why Does It Matter?

Medium 2021-02-22

Things Horrible Freelance Writing Clients Say

Medium 2021-02-21

We Need To Stop Expecting Aliyah To Be ‘Immigrant Life Lite’

Medium 2021-02-21

A (Totally Free) Guide To Freelance Writing

Medium 2021-02-19

Things I Learned About Freelance Writing From My Therapist

Medium 2021-02-18

Why we don’t need “Anglo” representation in Israel

Medium 2021-02-18

A Reading List For Those Planning Aliyah

Medium 2021-02-10

The Value Of Zoom Networking With Other Freelance Writers

Medium 2021-01-28

A 4 Point Lead Qualification Checklist For Freelance Writers

Medium 2021-01-18

How To Write For Living In Israel

Medium 2021-01-17

How To Research Salaries In Israel

Medium 2021-01-13

The Missing Middle Ground In The Debate About Israel

Medium 2021-01-10

Every Lead Is A Node To A New Network

Medium 2020-12-15

Webinar: What Is Thought Leadership? (Video and Podcast)

Medium 2020-12-15

Why ghosting — and ghosts — simply suck

Medium 2020-12-14

Pragmatism, not bridge-building, governs Israel’s emerging peace ties

Medium 2020-12-13

Does Cold Emailing Work To Find Freelance Clients?

Medium 2020-12-11

Guest Posting Is Often A Scam

Medium 2020-12-01

Medium, LinkedIn, or your blog: where should you publish your thought leadership?

Medium 2020-11-29

A Daily Marketing Keep Fit List For Writers

Medium 2020-11-27

To Grow As A Writer, Write About (Slightly) Uncomfortable Topics

Medium 2020-11-27

What Can Thought Leadership Do For Me — Or My Business?

Medium 2020-11-02

My Thoughts On Simona Weinglass’s ORM Exposé

Medium 2020-11-01

My Top Tips For Starting A Freelance Writing Business

Medium 2020-11-01

How To Find Email Addresses To Resolve Customer Support Problems

Medium 2020-10-30

What Does Bragging on LinkedIn Actually Achieve?

Medium 2020-10-29

Life hack: Using Speech To Text Processing on Social Media Voice Notes

Medium 2020-10-24

A Backup Calendar To Keep Your Computer In Good Running Order

Medium 2020-10-23

What To Know Before Working With Freelancers in Israel

Medium 2020-10-21

How big is Israel compared to Ireland?

Medium 2020-10-03

The History of Jewish Cork — As Told By YouTube

Medium 2020-10-01

What Was It Like Growing Up Jewish in Ireland?

Medium 2020-09-27

Apps and Websites For Plotting the Coronavirus Radius

Medium 2020-09-24

Technology Trends Explained: A YouTube Playlist

Medium 2020-09-23

A look inside Israel’s kosher goat meat revolution

Medium 2020-09-22

A Whistlestop Tour of Israel’s Borders

Medium 2020-09-21

Why I Think Hasbara Is A Waste of Time (And Resources)

Medium 2020-09-15

Is Criticizing Israel Kosher?

Medium 2020-09-14

A Model For Sharing Only Essential Coronavirus Information

Medium 2020-09-13

Is Being Self Employed in Israel Really Nigh On Impossible?

Medium 2020-09-11

My Freelance Hourly Cheat Sheet

Medium 2020-09-08

Where Are Jerusalem’s Embassies Going To Go?

Medium 2020-09-06

How To Take An Offsite Backup Using Synology NAS

Medium 2020-08-28

Project: Offbeat Offsite Backup Storage

Medium 2020-08-27

Is Hiring A Ghostwriter Legitimate?

Medium 2020-08-23

Embassies and consulates in Jerusalem — my map

Medium 2020-08-19

My Jerusalem food and drink recommendations map

Medium 2020-08-19

Translation apps and websites with Hebrew text to speech (TTS) support

Medium 2020-08-07

How To Freelance Internationally. From Israel.

Medium 2020-08-05

Using Checklists To Reduce Human Error in Business

Medium 2020-07-30

The Unspoken Extra Skills That Are Needed For Freelancing

Medium 2020-07-26

My Approach To Backing Up My Online Writing

Medium 2020-07-06

10 Things I’d Like To Change About Life in Israel

Medium 2020-07-05

Code Red Thought Leadership Study (For IT / Cybersecurity): Study Findings (And Podcast)

Medium 2020-06-28

How To Back Up Shared Hosting Onto A Linux Host

Medium 2020-06-26

4 Ways To Backup Linux Workstations Onto A Synology NAS (With Videos)

Medium 2020-06-22

How to save a Clonezilla full disk image to an NAS over SSH

Medium 2020-06-21

Synology DS920+ Unboxing and Setup Photos

Medium 2020-06-17

What is thought leadership?

Medium 2020-06-15

Ubuntu Desktop — My Complete Backup Strategy (V1.3)

Medium 2020-06-14

The Piracy Risk of Using File Sharing Websites

Medium 2020-06-07

The 5 People You Will Encounter in Facebook Medical Groups

Medium 2020-06-05

On The Value Of Sharing Kind Words With Others

Medium 2020-06-02

My Three Year Long Non-Fiction Reading List (150+ Books)

Medium 2020-05-31

My Gallbladder Surgery Story. And: The Water Party Project

Medium 2020-05-29

Five Common VPN Myths — And Responses

Medium 2020-05-21

Book Review: Broker, Trader, Lawyer, Spy: The Secret World of Corporate Espionage

Medium 2020-05-17

My Gmail Organization System for Managing Bills (in Israel)

Medium 2020-05-05

User Data Export Approaches of SaaS / Cloud Service / Social Media Providers — An Overview

Medium 2020-05-01

How to Extract Your Data From Quora and Reddit

Medium 2020-04-30

Tech project: Wedding thank you videos with Mailchimp

Medium 2020-04-29

How to Set Up On GreenInvoice.co.il (Freelance Platform in Israel)

Medium 2020-04-28

5 websites you’ll start using when you move to Israel

Medium 2020-04-24

How to: Use Multcloud For Cross-Cloud Backups

Medium 2020-04-22

How to: Backup Your Web Hosting (According to the 3–2–1 Principle)

Medium 2020-04-20

Review: Ubuntu GUIs for Managing AWS S3 Buckets

Medium 2020-04-20

How To: Create A G-Suite Address Just For Account Signups

Medium 2020-04-19

How to: Set Up Open DNS On A Partner Router in Israel

Medium 2020-04-17

The Pros and Cons of Living in Israel

Medium 2020-04-08

A Look Inside The Weird World of Zoom Bombing

Medium 2020-04-02

How To Use Super Pharm To Order Prescription Medications Online (in Israel)

Medium 2020-03-19

Corona Diaries 1: Socially Isolating in Jerusalem

Medium 2020-03-18

Corona Diaries 1: Socially Isolating in Jerusalem

Medium 2020-03-17

If you’re noise-adverse and working-from-home consider buying this gear

Medium 2020-03-17

The Corona Diaries 1: Social Isolation in Jerusalem

Medium 2020-03-17

How to Make Your Home Office a Productivity Haven

Medium 2020-03-10

Tutorial: Creating a custom module in Zoho CRM to send clients work

Medium 2020-02-13

Internal Referrals — An Under-Tapped Way To Grow Your Freelance Business

Medium 2020-02-12

How to Work With The World — From Israel

Medium 2020-02-09

The Real Person’s Guide To Buying From Aliexpress

Medium 2020-02-07

“You Have To Be Authentic. Every. Single. Day”

Medium 2020-02-05

Some Must-Have Accessories For Multimonitor Workstations

Medium 2020-02-05

How To: Save Gsuite and Gmail Storage Space by Archiving Old Emails and Files To AWS S3

Medium 2020-02-04

Know Your Freelance Client (KYFC): Basic Due Diligence For Freelancers

Medium 2020-02-03

Some great workstations from /r/battlestations

Medium 2020-02-02

Graphics cards (GPUs) that support six (and more) outputs

Medium 2020-01-31

Customer Service in Israel (And My Blacklist and Whitelist)

Medium 2020-01-25

Tutorial: Creating a Password-Protected Wordpress Staging Environment Using Softaculous And…

Medium 2020-01-24

Freelance Writing Pricing: Per Word, Per Hour, or Per Project? And How Much Of Each?

Medium 2020-01-20

The Unusual Tactic I’m Using to Attract High-Intent Inbound Leads

Medium 2020-01-19

What do Israelis mean when they talk about working “in high tech”?

Medium 2020-01-17

My current Ubuntu (desktop) backup strategy

Medium 2020-01-06

My (Unorthodox) Productivity Resolution For This Year — Be Less ‘Responsive’!

Medium 2020-01-01

My (Meandering) Guide to VESA Monitor Mounts

Medium 2019-12-30

Four FinTech Products I Would Like To See Roll Out in Israel

Medium 2019-11-26

Why You Need Gastronorm Pans In Your Life

Medium 2019-11-11

Some Creative Uses For Google Groups

Medium 2019-10-29

How to: set up“virtual number” call and SMS routing for ~$30/yr.

Medium 2019-04-01

OSINT adventure: Pillaging media lists from Google

Medium 2019-02-19

What if Donald Trump is Israel's Trojan Horse?

International Policy Digest

Home Assistant Shabbat indicator light

Hackster

Content Marketing and Thought Leadership: What's The Difference?

Marketing Profs 2021

Bitmovin's Top 6 Smart TV Innovations

Bitmovin

Rsync for website backup in a shared hosting environment

Linux Magazine 2020